The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology
Title | The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Hass |
Publisher | Oxford Handbooks Online |
Pages | 909 |
Release | 2007-03-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199271976 |
A defining volume of essays in which leading international scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology.
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Hiscock |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 849 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0199672806 |
This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church - and, perhaps as a result, produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The early-modern interaction of rhetoric and faith is addressed in thirty-nine chapters of original research, divided into five sections. The first analyses the changes within the church from the Reformation to the establishment of the Church of England, the phenomenon of puritanism and the rise of non-conformity. The second section discusses ten genres in which faith was explored, including poetry, prophecy, drama, sermons, satire, and autobiographical writings. The middle section focuses on selected individual authors, among them Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton. Since authors never write in isolation, the fourth section examines a range of communities in which writers interpreted their faith: lay and religious households, sectarian groups including the Quakers, clusters of religious exiles, Jewish and Islamic communities, and those who settled in the new world. Finally, the fifth section considers some key topics and debates in early modern religious literature, ranging from ideas of authority and the relationship of body and soul, to death, judgment, and eternity. The Handbook is framed by a succinct introduction, a chronology of religious and literary landmarks, a guide for new researchers in this field, and a full bibliography of primary and secondary texts relating to early modern English literature and religion.
The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Lunger Knoppers |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 744 |
Release | 2012-11-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191669423 |
This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war, regicide, the abolition of monarchy, proscription of episcopacy, constitutional experiment, and finally the return of monarchy-led to an unprecedented outpouring of texts, including new and transformed literary genres and techniques. The Handbook provides up-to-date scholarship on current issues as well as historical information, textual analysis, and bibliographical tools to help readers understand and appreciate the bold and indeed revolutionary character of writing in mid-seventeenth-century England. The volume is innovative in its attention to the literary and aesthetic aspects of a wide range of political and religious writing, as well as in its demonstration of how literary texts register the political pressures of their time. Opening with essential contextual chapters on religion, politics, society, and culture, the largely chronological subsequent chapters analyse particular voices, texts, and genres as they respond to revolutionary events. Attention is given to aesthetic qualities, as well as to bold political and religious ideas, in such writers as James Harrington, Marchamont Nedham, Thomas Hobbes, Gerrard Winstanley, John Lilburne, and Abiezer Coppe. At the same time, the revolutionary political context sheds new light on such well-known literary writers as John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick, Henry Vaughan, William Davenant, John Dryden, Lucy Hutchinson, Margaret Cavendish, and John Bunyan. Overall, the volume provides an indispensable guide to the innovative and exciting texts of the English Revolution and reevaluates its long-term cultural impact.
The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Russell Re Manning |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 647 |
Release | 2013-01-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0199556938 |
The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology" explores the diversity and vitality o natural theology, both historically and as an issue of contemporary concern.
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Clayton |
Publisher | Oxford Handbooks Online |
Pages | 1041 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199279276 |
The field of `science and religion' is exploding in popularity among both academics and the reading public. This is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the debate, written by the leading experts yet accessible to the general reader.
The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert Meilaender |
Publisher | Oxford Handbooks Online |
Pages | 558 |
Release | 2007-08-09 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199227225 |
Annotation What are the practical and theoretical issues that concern and shape theological ethics? This handbook offers a guide to the discipline. Written by an international group of 30 scholars, the book is aimed at all students and academics who want to explore more fully essential topics in Christian ethics.
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Burch Brown |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 565 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0190871199 |
This volume offers 37 original essays from leading scholars on the crucial topics, issues, methods, and resources for studying and teaching religion and the arts.